This meant the Apollo Eight astronauts could fire the rocket that would send them from Earth orbit toward the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

At the end of the test flight,the speed of the Apollo spacecraft was increased to forty thousand kilometers an hour.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

It was the countdown for Apollo Eleven the space flight that would carry men to the first landing on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.15

Jim Lovell talked about the current situation at NASA during an event to mark the fortieth anniversary of Apollo Thirteen.

VOA: special.2010.04.28

Join us again next week as we continue the story of the Apollo space flights on EXPLORATIONS in VOA Special English.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

But they were not the last. NASA -- the National Aeronautics and Space Administration launched six more Apollo flights.

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Everything worked as planned. Everyone expected the third moon-landing flight, Apollo Thirteen, would go as well as the first two.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

The successful flight of Apollo Seven led NASA officials to send the next flight, Apollo Eight,to the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

They landed at Hadley Rille near the Apennine Mountains, northwest of the place where Apollo Eleven had landed.

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That was when men from Earth -- American astronauts flew their Apollo Eleven spacecraft to the moon, landed and returned home safely.

VOA: special.2009.07.29

Three astronauts were named for the first manned Apollo test flight: Virgil Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Near the space center in Houston,Texas, some amateur star-watchers were trying to see the Apollo spacecraft through telescopes.

VOA: special.2009.07.22

Today look back at the first flights of the Apollo program designed to land humans on the moon.

VOA: special.2009.07.08

Harrison Schmitt talked about the moon landings of the Apollo program as a historic beginning to greater exploration.

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